Appointments Quote by Jack Smith

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want…

— Will Arnett

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

— Liam Neeson

Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps, and I love the feeling of it slowing down.

— Stacy Martin

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

— Mary McCarthy

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really…

— Anne Alexander

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures…

— Christian Boltanski

Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial…

— Joseph Kanon

“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out.…

— Lev Grossman

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our…

— Erica Jong

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It…

— Fritz Leiber

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming…

— Chase Twichell

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the…

— Jan Morris